Trump said hydrochloriquine, which is in the bleach family and was and is used in treatment I beleive.
If a couple of rednecks thought he meant harpic then that really shows the intelligence of the individuals.

My understanding is a rather laymans one. Essentially the younger you are, as a rule, the quicker your auto-immune system kicks in.

When any virus infects you then your body kicks into search mode to look for any previous antibody response. Once it realises that there is not any, only then does it start manufacturing a new one. But the older you are, and with a history of previous illnesses, the slower your body is to realise that it needs to come up with a brand new anti-body response, and when it does struggles more to do som and thus you are more likely to die.

There was a case early on of a little girl who died of it in Italy I think. A lot was made of it because that was not meant to have happened but when a PM was carried out, they discovered the poor little mite had undiagnosed leukemia which impacts on the white-blood-cell count which in turn is all about your auto-immune system.

My understanding is that how we respond to Covid is all about how quickly our bodies decide to go on the offensive rather than wasting time looking for previous solutions.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Whatever he meant, I'm not sure there's any sheen to be put on the fact that he sounded like 'the mad uncle' when saying it . He was winging it to extremes and it must have been embarrassing for a medical professional to sit there not knowing how to react to what he was saying.

On the other side of the coin, I do think people get a bit revisionist about Trump on covid, due to his mask comments. He was, to my mind, always very pro vaccination and nobody ever appears to mention or remember that part!

Yes, but it's not clear how much so to younger working demographics....and I somewhat doubt he's be saying you can't have a job or enter a nightclub like Macron has.

His attitude towards masks never went to anything like the extent of the Democrats though....as did his attitudes towards restricting freedoms.

And it also must be remembered that he was anti lockdowns to anything like the Democrats......which will be remembered as excessive in its implementations.

The damage done is generational.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Aug 2021 12.55am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Yes, that's true though at least states to some extent had their own approaches, whereas here whatever edict came down from on high applied to all. Not as though the State based approach to life is universally better (as there are still federal considerations), but it at least it does allow for less of a cookie cutter type life.

I'm of the view that there needs to be much more skepticism and push back over any taking of civil freedoms.

Vaccine passports are a means to many other ends and a conduit to social credit control.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)